Research interests

Aboriginal ethnic community and familty formation Alberta history broadband networks and community development Canadian animation Canadian film and literary history Canadian humour Canadian literature communications policy Communication theory community-university partnership Confucianism Contemporary rhetorical theory and practice cultural constructions of identity Development studies with a focus on gender discipline construction East Asian culture ethics and philosophy of Chinese history Ethnography Ethnomethodology and discourse analysis Experiential Learning and Travel Study Food Culture gender and sexual identities gender race and ethnicity higher education innovation and leadership history and representation of immigrant experience history of ideas history of knowledge transfer hockey history and culture immigrant women in Canada Intellectual history of Canadian universities International comparisons of human rights and antidiscrimination legislation with regard to gender internet communities and culture lesbian families media and democracy Motherhood multiculturalism myth and popular culture North American cultural history organizational communication (particularly writing and decision making in organizations) organizational culture peace studies performance studies Political communication popular culture professional communication research methods research methods and ethics rhetorical education rhetorical history Rhetorical Theory Science/Enlightenment/ sexuality and disability social context of information and communications technology social dimensions of innovation systems South Asia Sport and Rhetoric the West in North America visual culture Western Canadian identity women and India